Wellmount Accomodation in Athlone

Last February I wrote a post about Wellmount Student Village, I tried to explain there my point of view of the place.
Right now I just received the deposit back and I wanted to explain again my point of view of the situation because I think it may interest some erasmus students who are looking for accommodation in Athlone (Ireland).
After being in wellmount for 9 months I just received the amount of 101 € of deposit, some of my friends have received a little bit more and some a little bit less, and even some of them haven't received any amount yet from the deposit.
To receive that amount of money was a nightmare, and it was a nightmare because I sent to the manager like 5 emails and I didn't receive any answer so then I tried calling them and after calling like 3 or 4 times they lie to me a couple of times, like:

"Don't worry Manuel, tomorrow we will make the deposit so in two days you will receive the money."

And it is frustrating when you heard that a couple of times and then they don't send you the money back.
And finally the last point is that because they during the whole year don't show you any legal electric bills, you don't really know how much electricity you are spending and at the end they just give you the deposit back but they don't show you any break down of all the invoices, so I don't really trust how honest they are.

Conclusion, I don't recommend staying in Wellmount in Athlone, there are better places for better prices closer to the AIT Campus.

Because there are good things in Athlone, here I show you some pics:

Ireland Road Trip 2012

Wellmount Student Village in Athlone

Since I have been living in Wellmount for the last 6 months I want to write a post explaining my point of view about this place.

Wellmount is a group of houses, each house has like 4 apartments, the 2 apartments on the ground floor has 3 rooms, 1 bathroom and 1 kitchen. The other two apartments on the first floor has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 kitchen and 1 living room.
The apartments some of them are better than the other because it depends of the people who has been living there before, they can be fine or they can be quite old with the walls dirty and doors that don't close well. For example in the apartment I am living right now the main door doesn't close well and sometimes if we don't pay attention we leave it open without realizing.
In the 4 bedrooms apartment the fridge is quite small so for 4 people is kind of inconvenient.
In general the apartment are fine, but just fine because is kind of expensive, we pay 65€ per week per person and for that price there are better places but some are closer to the campus some others not.
The Internet is included with price but this year we had some problems with the Internet and it has been Dow sometimes for a couple of days which is totally inconvenient.

Finally, the location is not bad, I mean is like between the AIT and the center so you can reach the campus walking for 15 minutes and you can go to the center for the same amount of time.

What I wanted to say is that the price for the washing machine and the dryer is quite expensive, 3€ to put the washing machine and 3€ also for the dryer so in total is 6€ which it means is overpriced, and the place is just open from around 10 or 11 to 7 or 8, sometimes is not open and also is closed on sunday, and you need a token to put on those machines and to buy those tokens is like impossible because you gotta buy them to the manager who is just there from 1 to 2 on week days and obviously at that time you're in class, what a nightmare!

Anyway, I want to upload some pics or a movie about the place and also I want to write a post about the college. I hope this information is useful.

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